faheem@cascade.Stanford.EDU (Faheem Akram) (10/12/89)
I am very much interested in getting a program that works like Script or Photo and runs under the DOS. For reference, Script and Photo allow one to make a typescript of a terminal session, i.e a file can be created that contains the total record of ones session on the terminal. Commercial and Shareware programs of this nature would be of interest to me. I would also appreciate learning about any comments you might have about the programs (if they exist) that you recommend. Thanks in advance. M. Faheem Akram
ODX@PSUVM.BITNET (Tim Larson) (10/13/89)
Photo(TOPS20) References: <1323@cascade.Stanford.EDU> In article <1323@cascade.Stanford.EDU>, faheem@cascade.Stanford.EDU (Faheem Akram) says: > >I am very much interested in getting a program that works like Script >or Photo and runs under the DOS. For reference, Script and Photo allow >one to make a typescript of a terminal session, i.e a file can be created that >contains the total record of ones session on the terminal. Commercial and > > (a few lines deleted...) > >M. Faheem Akram I helped a friend solve this problem using Mark DiVecchio's LPTX program and Charles Petzold's KEY-FAKE program. It was actually pretty simple, though *NOT* perfect. If program's such as Photo existed for DOS, I'm sure many people would be interested. Meanwhile, the following may work for you: 1. Create the files CONLOG.BAT and ENDLOG.BAT as follows: <File CONLOG.BAT:> lptx -1 -o conlog.log keyfake @114 <File ENDLOG.BAT:> keyfake @114 lptx -1 -c 2. To begin console logging, just type CONLOG, and to end it type EDNLOG. 3. Of course, you need LPTX (which has been in C.B.I.P), KEY-FAKE (which is one of the PCMagazine Utilities) and all four files have to be somewhere in your path. Hope this helps! -Tim Larson odx@psuvm.bitnet
nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) (10/13/89)
In article <1323@cascade.Stanford.EDU> faheem@cascade.Stanford.EDU (Faheem Akram) writes:
I am very much interested in getting a program that works like Script
or Photo and runs under the DOS.
I have just uploaded script to grape.ecs.clarkson.edu:/f/uploads/script.arc.
If you're calling grape via the BBS, that's file area 4.
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--russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu])
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A recession now appears more than 2 years away -- John D. Mathon, 4 Oct 1989.jhallen@wpi.wpi.edu (Joseph H Allen) (10/14/89)
In article <1323@cascade.Stanford.EDU> faheem@cascade.Stanford.EDU (Faheem Akram) writes: >I am very much interested in getting a program that works like Script >or Photo and runs under the DOS. For reference, Script and Photo allow >I would also >appreciate learning about any comments you might have about the programs (if >they exist) that you recommend. I recommend mine, log.com- I mailed you a uuencoded copy of it and I submitted it to comp.binaries.ibm.pc in case anyone else is interested (It's public domain). I wrote this program just 2 days ago because I needed something to record compiler error messages and see them on the screen at the same time. Since it works this way, I can abort the compiler (instead of having to wait all the way through as some editors would have you) and put the error messages in an other window in my editor (qedit). This program was kind of a pain to write. At first I thought I could trap all the data sent to the bios screen routines. Unfortunately ansi.sys scrolls the screen itself- it doesn't use the bios scroll screen function. Nansi.sys does just the reverse- it uses bios to scroll the screen but it writes the characters directly to the screen. Next I thought that I might capture int 21 a get each of the console output functions- but I decided that would be very gross. Finally, I found the undocumented MS-DOS call through which all the console output goes. I guess we little people arn't priveledged enough to know about all the good MS-DOS interrupts. My program only records up to 50K of output- any more is truncated. It would be a real pain to make the program so that it did file output while in the dos call since dos isn't reentrant. To do that you'd probably have to have the timer poll the routines to figure out when not in msdos- But then you'd have dead-lock problems... Anyway, 50K should be more than enough. And besides, it's for free. Joe
jhallen@wpi.wpi.edu (Joseph H Allen) (10/17/89)
In article <4750@wpi.wpi.edu> jhallen@wpi.wpi.edu (Joseph H Allen) writes: >In article <1323@cascade.Stanford.EDU> faheem@cascade.Stanford.EDU (Faheem Akram) writes: >>I am very much interested in getting a program that works like Script >>or Photo and runs under the DOS. For reference, Script and Photo allow You can now get "log.com" from the anonymous FTP site here: computer: wpi.wpi.edu path: pc/log.com